KS4 · Physical education · Year 11
Sparring and review
Health and wellbeing: martial arts and self-defence
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can perform self-defence moves and spar within a controlled setting showing excellent footwork and timing.
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What you’ll learn
I can perform self-defence moves and spar within a controlled setting showing excellent footwork and timing.
Key learning points
- Move: performing self-defence moves requires the ability to react quickly, identify a threat and respond immediately.
- Move: good sparring technique requires dynamic movements, fast feet and agility to evade opponents safely.
- Think: in self-defence, you can defend yourself proportionately to what is being done to you.
- Feel: sparring helps develop resilience under pressure when faced with an opponent.
- Connect: sparring with others requires empathy, communication, cooperation and mutual respect.
Words to know
- self-defence
- a legal justification for using reasonable, necessary and proportionate force to protect yourself or others from imminent harm
- sparring
- a controlled and supervised sport that allows martial artists to apply techniques in real time against resisting partners
- technique
- a deliberate, skillful movement or method designed to achieve a specific outcome in combat or self-defence
Common mistakes
Pupils think that self-defence is just like fighting.
Self-defence focuses on escape and de-escalation. It is about avoiding harm and getting away safely.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Pupils should be reminded to never carry a weapon. Also be careful wearing headphones as this reduces your awareness of the environment and makes you vulnerable. When sparring, you are unlikely to have lots of padding, so sparring in this lesson focuses on performing movements in a controlled way.